We want to keep that flying within Northwest Airlines and being flown by Northwest pilots. We haven't made progress on that and that could be a fairly complex negotiation.

It's conceivable they could replace some (Northwest) flying and not violate the contract.

If you don't have the capital and financing to build it up, it's hard to progress,

People are flying, but 33 percent of them are flying from somewhere else. We need to work with Northwest to be more competitive in this market and retain passengers out of this airport.

There are estimates that there are as many as 25 million Americans who have a fear of flying. When we, as an airport, can put an individual in the air, we connect them with the entire world.

The city is really moving this along faster than I expected. It's exciting to see how much progress has been made and they are really starting to make it happen.